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   Machiavelli as a dramatist

   Niccolò Machiavelli started work with the Chancery in Florence at the age of 29, traveling on diplomatic missions around Europe. ... Machiavelli used those words, fortuna and virtú, literally and figuratively in both pieces to demonstrate that immorality is acceptable when the ends justify the means.
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   Fortuna

   Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) goddess of fortune, was the personification of luck in Roman religion. ... Lady Fortune appears in chapter 25 of Machiavelli's The Prince, in which he says Fortune only rules one half of men's fate, the other half being of their own will.
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   Rota Fortunae

   In the medieval and renaissance period, a popular genre of writing was "Mirrors for Princes", which set out advice for the ruling classes on how to wield power (the most famous being The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli). ... Fortuna was also used by a character in the novel "Confederacy of Dunces";the main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, makes many references to "Fortuna's wheel" and also Boethius's works.
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   Italian language

   Niccolò Machiavelli and other Florentines preferred the version spoken by ordinary people in their own times. ... | Good luck! - Thank you! | Buona fortuna! - Grazie! (general) / In bocca al lupo! - Crepi [il lupo]! (to wish someone to overcome a difficulty, similar to "Break a leg!"; literally: "Into the mouth of the wolf!" - "May the wolf die!" | |
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   Apotheosis

   Hector Berlioz used "Apotheose" as the title of the final movement of his Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, a work composed in 1846 for the dedication of a monument to France's war dead. ... ↑ Nicolo Machiavelli, letter to Giovan Battista Soderini, week of September 13-21, 1506

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